[16904] in Athena Bugs
Re: early-release, bindkey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Sun Jun 20 03:53:50 1999
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 03:53:43 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199906200753.DAA27161@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>, John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16897] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> tcsh is a version of csh with some enhancements (such as extra
> bultins, command-line editing support, and fixes for some of its many
> bugs), and has been the default Athena shell for some years now. When
> /bin/athena/tcsh was established as stable, it became the default
> shell for former csh users; it's possible you didn't notice that
> change.
Just to belabor a tangential point, this history isn't quite accurate.
A very long time ago (this was teh case at least as far back as teh
fall of 1989) /bin/csh was actually tcsh, albeit a really old version.
I believe it was also installed as /bin/athena/tcsh, probably via
symlinks (this might not be quite 10 years old). Sometime after that
(I'm guessing about 5 years ago, but I don't remember offhand) we
changed teh default shell form /bin/csh to /bin/athena/tcsh (as well
as all existing users who had /bin/csh as their shell, since /bin/csh
was still a version of tcsh). Sometime after that we stopped
replacing /bin/csh with our version of tcsh. Somewehre in there we
also upgraded our version of tcsh to something recent. There, more
than you ever wanted to know about the default athena shell.
--
Jonathon
